California Assembly Bill AB2575 Introduced / Bill

 BILL NUMBER: AB 2575INTRODUCED BILL TEXT INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Baker FEBRUARY 19, 2016 An act to amend Section 21350 of the Vehicle Code, relating to vehicles. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST AB 2575, as introduced, Baker. Traffic control devices. Existing law requires the Department of Transportation to place and maintain appropriate signs, signals, and other traffic control devices along highways under its jurisdiction. Existing law authorizes the department, with the consent of local authorities, to place and maintain appropriate signs, signals, and other traffic control devices along city streets and county roads as may be necessary or desirable to control or direct traffic, or to facilitate traffic flow, to or from state highways. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to these provisions. Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no. State-mandated local program: no. THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. Section 21350 of the Vehicle Code is amended to read: 21350. The Department of Transportation shall place and maintain, or cause to be placed and maintained, with respect to highways under its jurisdiction, appropriate signs, signals, and other traffic control devices as required hereunder, and may place and maintain, or cause to be placed and maintained,  such  appropriate signs, signals, or other traffic control devices as may be authorized hereunder, or as may be necessary properly to indicate and to carry out the provisions of this code, or to warn or guide traffic upon the highways. The Department of  Transportation may,   Transportation,  with the consent of the local authorities,  may  also place and maintain, or cause to be placed and maintained, in or along city streets and county roads, appropriate signs, signals, and other traffic control devices, or may perform, or cause to be performed,  such   any  other work on city streets and county roads, as may be necessary or desirable to  control,   control  or direct traffic, or to facilitate traffic flow,  to or from   to, from,  or on state highways.